Yes you did read that right! This week has been an odd concoction of learning experiences which has really confirmed what I thought I knew - that my current behaviour is starting to become such second nature that going back to where I was in March is almost unthinkable.
Last weekend was spend exploring Western Germany, with maybe a few too many beers and certainly more sausage than you can shake a frankfurter at (I'll forgo the obvious innuendo here!) so my weigh in was broadly flat on Wednesday, non-on, but still not the leaps and bounds I had hoped for so I felt a little bit dejected.
Now in the past, a "setback" like that might have thrown me off course, but it just made me even more focused to achieve my target to loose another 20kg by Christmas. Derailing therefore was not an option. Instead I took a long hard look at what I had had to eat, and drink in Germany, and just refocused. I've never really been a massive fan of food planning to the tiniest detail, but it does have its uses, and one thing I'm going to do in the future is make sure that I have planned all of my meals for the aftermath of a big heady weekend away before I've gone, then there's no "oh well let's wait another day" to getting back on track.
This has worked, this week everyday I've been below 1700 calories, my target of 2000 means that I have some headroom left in the event of any external factors. Most days this week I've been around 1500!
One further step forward this week has been clothes! I have finally had to admit defeat with work trousers, and gone out and buy new ones, a whole 8 inches smaller in the waist than when I started out on this journey. It's a real boost to see results like that. Stats, graphs, and KPI's as I discussed last time are one thing, but seeing clothes that actually don't fit you because they are too big, is the biggest boost you can have!
A final thought: I was talking to an overweight guy on the train into work the other morning one of our regular commuters. He's not as big as me and probably two-three years older than me. His attitude was appalling and one that I really couldn't understand.
He actually came up to me, knowing I worked for the train company, and said that he'd noticed my weight loss over the last few months and that he was very envious! We shared experiences of weight gain, and going through your teens and twenties overweight. I asked him why he had never attempted to loose it!
His response was "this is what I am!"
Maybe I am wrong to judge other people here, but how can someone, who acknowledges the risk that obesity causes to them, is suffering with the affects of it be too blasé to actually try and make an effort. I provided him with this blog, and some of the techniques I have been using. Hopefully he's reading this and will make a positive change, if not, then I find that sad, and yet another reason why this journey for me is definitely going to be a one way ticket down...
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